Volume 1 (Biography)
Christian Mentzel (1622-1701): personal physician of the Great Elector, botanist and sinologist :
[a biography on the 400th birthday of the famous Fürstenwalde scholar].
Team of authors: Astrid Böger, Wolf D. Hartmann, Stefan Koch, Markus Mollitor, Brigitte Nixdorf, Melanie Scholz & Guido Strohfeldt
Published 2021
DIE MARK BRANDENBURG – Publishing House for Regional and Contemporary History
ISBN: 978-3-948052-11-9
Link: https://www.die-mark-brandenburg.de/Christian-Mentzel-1622-1701-Leibarzt-des-Grossen-Kurfuersten-Botaniker-und-Sinologe
Content:
- “A Fürstenwalder is Mr. Mentzel” – origin, school, studies.
- “Argonaut train to track down golden truths” – teacher, botanist, personal physician
- “For I may well call the Chinese language and scripture very difficult to learn” – co-founder of sinology
- “He never deviated from the path of strict science” – death and afterlife
- Appendix
Special edition (conference volume)
Christian Mentzel (1622-1701) : Cultural-historical colloquium on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth
Editors: Wolf D. Hartmann, Stefan Koch, Markus Mollitor
Published 2022
Brandenburgischer Akademieverlag
ISBN: 978-3-910628-00-7
The conference proceedings can be purchased at the Museum Fürstenwalde.
Content:
- Home and Time of Christian Mentzel (Guido Strohfeldt, Frank Göse)
- Plant knowledge and botanical work of Mentzel (Brigitte Nixdorf, Hartmut Kretschmer, Birgit Seitz)
- Medical status (Stefan Koch, Ulrich Meyer, Marion Mücke)
- Sinological work (Markus Mollitor, Martina Siebert, Shaoying Li)
- Mentzel as academician and author (Melanie Scholz, Astrid Böger, Wolf D. Hartmann)
Volume 2 (Botany)
Christian Mentzel as a botanist of the 17th century (working title)
Team of authors: Astrid Böger, Wolf D. Hartmann, Stefan Koch, Markus Mollitor, Brigitte Nixdorf, Melanie Scholz & Guido Strohfeldt
In progress: publication planned for fall 2022
Content:
- Lifelong passion for botanical exploration.
- Empirically based botany teaching with first publication on Danzig’s Flora
- Mentzel as editor of the first multilingual plant encyclopedia
- Mentzel’s four-volume work on Brazilian natural images “Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae
- Mentzel’s systematics of Japanese plants and other world regions
- Mentzel as co-founder of plant geography
- Genius Mentzelia – Mentzel’s appreciation as a botanist with his own genus
Volume 3 (Sinology)
Christian Mentzel – Co-Founder of Chinese Sciences in the 17th Century (working title)
Direction: Wolf D. Hartmann and Markus Mollitor
In progress: publication planned for fall 2023
Volume 4 (Medicine)
Direction: Stefan Koch
In progress: publication planned for fall 2023
Volume 5 (Correspondence Network)
Direction: Melanie Scholz, Astrid Böger
In progress: publication planned for fall 2024